Greta Gerwig Quotes

There's an innate feeling when I choreograph in juxtaposition to how I feel as a dancer. When I choreograph, I never really look into the mirror. But as dancers, we always check ourselves in the mirror. I do feel that when I choreograph, I am making a dance on my own body. Much of it is my own response to the music.

I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.

The older you get, the better you get to know you body.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I feel very strong about 'Brother.' This is me. I've been writing with a much more free sky, open and free.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body, your instrument. You learn so much about who you are and what your truth is.

People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.

I wrote 'Saved' as a form of therapy to get over the fact that I had moved and lost so much of myself.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my own insecurities.

That aggression came over time from dealing with stuff - 'Anger Management' really is what it's called. That project came out and I felt a weight lifted off my chest. I learned something about myself.

One of my goals always, when I write music, is that it's not only me sharing my story with the fans: it's also a reminder to myself that, 'Hey, I said this so that I need to grow from it.'

When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!